How do you skin already-existing DirectGui frames?

[ramaskrik]

I need to have pretty detailed control like margin, background texture, text specific properties (text-alignment, text-color, text font, etc…)…

Is there a way to skin already-existing DirectGui frames (like DirectButton or DirectDialog) like that, or do I have to come up with my own GUI system?

[rdb]

Hi, welcome to the forums!

Sure, DirectGui items are fully customizable. There is nothing preventing you from assigning your attributes or custom images.

[ramaskrik]

Thanks, rdb!

I was unable to customise the DirectGuiWidgets in the way I wanted.

Based on this DirectButton tutorial I was able to set button’s image (using geom), but what if I want to have more precise control over it? Currently I need to have a button represented by an image only (without the awkward background), onto which is drawn a text (again, with customisable margin and other text properties). I was unable to find a way how to do it. Could you provide an example?

This is what I’ve managed to do. Note that the text is a part of the image.

[Thaumaturge]

Have you tried setting the “relief” keyword to “None”? To quote from this page:

You can also specify relief = None to avoid creating a frame polygon altogether (this is commonly done when you have specified your own geom object with the geom keyword).

Something like this:

btn = DirectButton(<your parameters here>, relief = None)

[ramaskrik]

That works great Thaumaturge! How could I not see this?